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- pronunciation:
- kraI
sihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
crises |
| definition 1: |
the point or moment just prior to a decisive and critical change.
He had reached a crisis in his writing career, and he knew he had to get something published or give up writing altogether.- synonyms:
- juncture, turning point
- similar words:
- climax, clutch, conjuncture, critical mass, crunch, crux, emergency, exigency, fix, hour, moment of truth, pickle, pinch, predicament, straits, zero
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| definition 2: |
an unstable or uncertain situation that has potential to bring about dramatic, possibly destructive, changes.
The assassination of the president threw the country into a crisis.
- similar words:
- instability, predicament, tinderbox
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| related words: |
brink, head, incident, plight, push |
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